Solving The Body Position Issue For Golf Strikes (Video) - by Pete Styles
Solving The Body Position Issue For Golf Strikes (Video) - by Pete Styles

So the next area we might look at if you are still toeing the golf ball, is making sure your body doesn’t stand up or drop down too much during the swing. So from a good address position everything is looking good here, we could be swinging to the top and then standing up and causing the toe shots. Now one area that I see quite common for golfers, who have this issue, is that they don’t have enough knee flex at the start or even throughout the entirety of their swing. So if during the address position, you’ve locked your legs out. You’ve got no real sort of suspension spring, if you don’t have enough flex in your knees, so if this position that makes it very awkward to make a good, consistent strike at the ball and actually what happens is your body will start to stand up as you lose your balance, lifting up and creating a bit of a toe shot as you hit the ball. So we want to have a nice a bit of knee flex at the start of the swing. That knee flex can be maintained all the way down to impact and we don’t have to stand and jump away and move out to the way of the golf ball. Another thing I would like you to focus on here is not crouching at the top of your backswing. So if you got a good address position and then you swing back and deep in the downswing.

From this – sorry in the backswing, from this position in your downswing, you are going to actually stand up to create some space, because if you didn’t stand up you would find you just hammered the club straight into the back of the ball – the strength at the back of the ground, sorry. So if you deep a lot at the top, you are going to have to stand up and that again is going to cause you some problems, so nice consistence spine angle is really important during you backswing to stay at the right level rather than standing up and then dipping back down into the golf ball. And one last area I want you to focus on is reaching for the ball, particularly if you are reaching to try and generate more power. So you set up here and you are reaching out trying to hit the ball as hard as you can and then during the swing, you reach out for it, your hips and your body go back, your hands try and stretch forward but can’t reach the golf ball because you are too far away in the set up. You’ll end up hitting the toe side of the club as well. So if we are setting up the ball and we are really stretching out here and we are reaching for the ball. We are going to see the clubs swinging down the inside line and the ball potentially hitting the toe end of the club as well. Look at those three areas in your game and see whether your body posture and your body position is affecting while you are hitting the toe of the club. 2015-10-16

So the next area we might look at if you are still toeing the golf ball, is making sure your body doesn’t stand up or drop down too much during the swing. So from a good address position everything is looking good here, we could be swinging to the top and then standing up and causing the toe shots. Now one area that I see quite common for golfers, who have this issue, is that they don’t have enough knee flex at the start or even throughout the entirety of their swing. So if during the address position, you’ve locked your legs out. You’ve got no real sort of suspension spring, if you don’t have enough flex in your knees, so if this position that makes it very awkward to make a good, consistent strike at the ball and actually what happens is your body will start to stand up as you lose your balance, lifting up and creating a bit of a toe shot as you hit the ball. So we want to have a nice a bit of knee flex at the start of the swing. That knee flex can be maintained all the way down to impact and we don’t have to stand and jump away and move out to the way of the golf ball. Another thing I would like you to focus on here is not crouching at the top of your backswing. So if you got a good address position and then you swing back and deep in the downswing.

From this – sorry in the backswing, from this position in your downswing, you are going to actually stand up to create some space, because if you didn’t stand up you would find you just hammered the club straight into the back of the ball – the strength at the back of the ground, sorry. So if you deep a lot at the top, you are going to have to stand up and that again is going to cause you some problems, so nice consistence spine angle is really important during you backswing to stay at the right level rather than standing up and then dipping back down into the golf ball. And one last area I want you to focus on is reaching for the ball, particularly if you are reaching to try and generate more power. So you set up here and you are reaching out trying to hit the ball as hard as you can and then during the swing, you reach out for it, your hips and your body go back, your hands try and stretch forward but can’t reach the golf ball because you are too far away in the set up. You’ll end up hitting the toe side of the club as well. So if we are setting up the ball and we are really stretching out here and we are reaching for the ball. We are going to see the clubs swinging down the inside line and the ball potentially hitting the toe end of the club as well. Look at those three areas in your game and see whether your body posture and your body position is affecting while you are hitting the toe of the club.